According to the latest information from the second quarter financial results, ASML is considering raising prices for its Low-NA EUV tools, which is reportedly upsetting its customers. ASML CFO Roger Dassen has noted that the company is looking into price increases for these tools, aligning its pricing strategy with product value. As the company continues to enhance the productivity of its tools, ASML plans to adjust pricing accordingly. The company operates a business unit called Installed Base Management, which focuses on maintaining and improving existing machines. Most of the

Samsung Display announced today that it has begun the full-scale supply of tandem OLED panels for laptops that meet VESA DisplayHDR True Black 1400, VESA's new certification tier for high-brightness OLED displays. Samsung Display is working with global PC manufacturers to expand the premium laptop OLED market with significantly enhanced brightness performance.

Announced by VESA this month, VESA DisplayHDR True Black 1400 requires a display to reproduce black levels of 0.0005 nits or lower while achieving peak brightness of

ARCTIC has updated the packaging for its MX-4 thermal paste, bringing its visual identity in line with the current MX-7 series design. The redesign introduces new packaging alongside a custom syringe developed by ARCTIC. While the appearance has changed, the MX-4 formula remains exactly the same. Users can continue to expect the same proven thermal performance, reliability, and ease of application that have made MX-4 one of the most trusted thermal compounds on the market.

Protecting customers remains ARCTIC's top priority,

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has come out with unusually direct comments on memory pricing, calling current semiconductor prices "abnormally high" and warning that the situation risks creating what he termed "chipflation", where rising chip costs push up finished product pricesfor consumers. Speaking at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry Summer Forum in Jeju on July 15, Chey argued that supply needs to increase even if it means lower margins for semiconductor companies. His reasoning: AI companies can absorb higher costs, but PC and

AMD today announced an expanded strategic partnership spanning AMD GPUs, CPUs, networking and software on Microsoft Azure. At the center of this expansion, Microsoft will deploy the AMD Helios Rackscale Solution, to power frontier model AI inference for Microsoft, its AI customers and support Azure AI services. Azure will also add two new AMD EPYC CPU-powered VM series and broaden its deployment of Pensando DPUs to support Azure networking services. AMD will begin shipping Helios to customers, including Microsoft, in the second half of 2026

Silicon photonics has emerged as a promising technology for addressing bandwidth and latency bottlenecks of conventional electrical interconnects and therefore are being explored for future artificial intelligence infrastructure. However, heterogenous integration of multiple material systems remains a challenge. Now, researchers show how micro-transfer printing can enable highly versatile heterogenous integration to expand the functionality of silicon photonics, paving the way for advanced photonic systems.

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and related computing infrastructure has exposed the limited bandwidth of conventional electrical interconnects in integrated circuits as a major bottleneck to system

Microsoft's subscription model isn't for everyone. Some people just want to pay once and move on with their lives, no auto-renewals, no billing surprises, no "your plan has changed" emails. This lifetime license just dropped to its lowest price yet: $54.99, down from $249.99.

Run the math against a Microsoft 365 subscription, and the gap is hard to ignore. Microsoft 365 Personal costs $99.

NVIDIA has officially released its first preview build of the CUDA toolkit for its RTX Spark platform, specifically as a native Windows-on-Arm software toolkit. This means that NVIDIA's partners, ecosystem developers, and game developers now have the means to perform native platform optimization for the latest NVIDIA chips. This is particularly important since the platform is one of the few Windows-on-Arm designs available on the market. For decades, modern PC gaming has focused on x86-based operating systems, giving

More individual readingsare being unlocked on NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series "Blackwell" graphics cards, as the modding community has started exploring GDDR7 temperature monitoring on a per-module basis. Interestingly, the modding community is diverse this time, including contributions from Brazilian GPU repair specialist Paulo Gomes, MSI Afterburner developer "Unwinder," Overclock.net member "asder00," HWiNFO creator Martin "Mumak" Malík, and Linux code developer "olealgoritme." By joining forces, the team